Bret Weinstein
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17,116 appearances
31 recordings
7 series
first heard Sep 2024
last heard 6d ago
Bret Weinstein’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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I'm just trying to so the problem is I would be tempted to say these things are non-arbitrary, and then you'll say, of course they are non-arbitrary.
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But when I say they are non-arbitrary, I'm trying to say that they are true in a particular sense.
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In other words, they track a value on which either all members of our culture will, of course, agree or all members of humanity will
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So, I think that's a good idea
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I think we're having a language problem.
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wait, hold on.
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Let me let me defend that.
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My point was not that all of the things that I think are moral are things that any creature would agree on.
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But there are things that I think any rational creature would agree on, which is that
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Things that are painful should in generally in general be avoided.
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Things that cause starvation are bad.
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Those sorts of things are universal well beyond the narrow clade that I happen to be in.
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These are universals.
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And the whole point is we have a uh a perceptual apparatus built based on the idea that when I feel starvation.
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Yeah.
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It's something to be remedied.
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Right.
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That is that is
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something meritorious about the ability to endure pain.
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There is something meritorious about delayed gratification, which is, I would argue, synonymous effectively with wisdom.
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